directory
Containing directions; instructing; directorial.
Adjective
- Containing directions; instructing; directorial.
Origin
From Middle English directorye, from Latin dīrēctōrius. By surface analysis, direct + -ory.
Forms
Noun
- A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.
- look up an address in the directory
Hypernyms: list reference work
- A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device.
- A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other directories may be stored. The files and subdirectories in a directory are usually related.
Synonyms: folder
Coordinate Terms: label pseudodirectory tag
- A form of government with a collegial executive whose members jointly exercise power; the executive of such a government.
- […] at the Ufa State Conference it was it was the union's conception of a directory (rather than a dictatorship) to rule anti-Bolshevik Russia that won the day. - 2015, Jonathan D. Smele, Historical Dictionary of the...
Synonyms: directorate
Origin
From Middle English directorie, dyrectorye, from Medieval Latin dīrēctōrium. By surface analysis, direct + -ory. Doublet of directorium. The political sense is a semantic loan from French directoire.
Forms
Hyponyms
active directory multidirectory nondirectory subdirectory working directory
Related
Derived
directory assistance directory climbing directory enquiries directoryless directory service directory traversal ex-directory metadirectory non-directory superdirectory